OpenGrants analyzes how the word “open” carries two different meanings in funding listings: a licensing condition applicants accept to receive money versus the open deliverable they are paid to produce, with the first costing rights and the second not. Using the UNICEF Venture Fund as an example of up to $100,000 in equity-free funding plus a year of mentoring for for-profit companies in programme countries with open source prototypes, it notes the record requires named licence families by output type, OSI-approved licences for software, CERN, MIT or TAPR for hardware, and CC-BY for design and content, making a plan built on proprietary code ineligible rather than merely weak regardless of mission fit.
The Grant Is Equity-Free. The License Is Not.
OpenGrants analyzes how the word "open" carries two different meanings in funding listings: a licensing condition applicants accept to receive money versus the open deliverable they are paid to produce, with the first costing rights and the second not. Using the UNICEF Venture Fund as an example of up to $100,000 in equity-free funding plus a year of mentoring for for-profit companies in programme countries with open source prototypes, it notes the record requires named licence families by output type, OSI-approved licences for software, CERN, MIT or TAPR for hardware, and CC-BY for design and content, making a plan built on proprietary code ineligible rather than merely weak regardless of mission fit.
Source: Opengrants